Today is my fellow arty Southerner Michael Stipe's 48th birthday. Since the Iowa caucases were yesterday, the 2008 election season has officially begun. I feel like I was with these guys in the trenches back in 2004. I sure hope there's a different outcome this fall for (ahem) the good guys (and good women if Clinton gets the nomination).
Here's REM's ever timely "Bad Day"
From the 1993 Inauguration ball celebrating President Bill Clinton, here's Stipe and Natalie Merchant with the 10,000 Maniacs' "Candy Everybody Wants". Does Natalie ever worry about spinning herself to death? Or has she ever considered doing a PSA about the dangers of twirling? (Impressionable girls are watching, that's all I'm saying...)
From the same concert, the semi-legendary "Automatic Baby" performing U2's "One":
And this one goes out to a very close friend who told me this week she learned over Christmas that her grandmother has terminal cancer. I, too, remember what it's like to leave a hospital room knowing I was seeing a loved one alive for the last time. You never forget, but you do somehow hold on.
Here's REM's ever timely "Bad Day"
From the 1993 Inauguration ball celebrating President Bill Clinton, here's Stipe and Natalie Merchant with the 10,000 Maniacs' "Candy Everybody Wants". Does Natalie ever worry about spinning herself to death? Or has she ever considered doing a PSA about the dangers of twirling? (Impressionable girls are watching, that's all I'm saying...)
From the same concert, the semi-legendary "Automatic Baby" performing U2's "One":
And this one goes out to a very close friend who told me this week she learned over Christmas that her grandmother has terminal cancer. I, too, remember what it's like to leave a hospital room knowing I was seeing a loved one alive for the last time. You never forget, but you do somehow hold on.
6 comments:
Dude, you should know better than to mention Natalie Merchant near me. Now I have the mental picture of Roland Orzabal getting fellated.
I'm with Dave. Natalie Merchant hurts me.
wow I feel some sort of way about those inauguration vids
hey i blog rolled me so i returned the favor
But...but...don't you just want to brush Natalie's hair? I mean, look at her...imagine her in front of a vanity mirror...
At various times, I've wanted to smack both Merchant and even Stipe for their self-righteousness. And I usually agree with them on these same issues.
Chrissy!
I feel like I should say DAVE! Even though he's on my twitter now :)
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